Part Ⅰ Introduction to Drama 1
Part Ⅱ A Brief History of Drama 11
Part Ⅲ Great Playwrights and Their Works 21
1．Sophocles Oedipus Rex 23
2．William Shakespeare Hamlet 47
3．Molière The Miser 64
4．Henrik Ibsen 87
5．Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Cherry Orchard 93
6．George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara 110
7．Eugene Gladstone O'Neill LongDay's Journey into Night 154
8．Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Setzuan 200
9．Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie 244
10．Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman 277
11．Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 310
12．Harold Pinter The Caretaker 354
Part Ⅳ The Study of One Play 379
Hedda Gabler 381
Appendix 479
Types of Drama and Critical Terms 479
Selected Bibliography 491